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Re:Txt.fyi by tedmiston on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:40PM (#13720744)
> Write something, hit publish, and it's live.

Live for how long though?

Too many publishing platforms sunrise and sunset. To use one that's not self-hosted, I really think one either needs to (1) charge money, and/or (2) offer guarantees like Posthaven or Svbtle, if you want users to publish good content on your platform.

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Re:Txt.fyi by mst on Friday February 24, 2017 @07:33AM (#13723013)
Write something, hit publish, enter resulting URL into archive.org?

I'd worry that's an abuse of archive.org except apparently their policy is basically "the crap is important too".

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Re:Txt.fyi by tedmiston on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:12PM (#13726684)
Even archive.org is dependent on donations [1].

[1]: https://archive.org/donate/

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Re:Txt.fyi by mst on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:58PM (#13727220)
Well, yes. But it has already proven staying power that puts it in rather a different class to "somebody's neat side project" in terms of expectation of survival.
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